A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared

Table 2 Respondent characteristics and survey timing as predictors of high priority for renewable energy (renew), or think climate change is happening now, caused mainly by humans (climate). Values shown are odds ratios (e^b) from weighted logit regressions with four survey datasets

	Surveys and dependent variable
	US POLES		NH GSP		OR CAFOR		North Country
	2016 (nationwide)		2012–17 (10 counties)		2011–15 (3 counties)		2017 (4 counties)
Predictor	1. Renew	2. Climate	3. Renew	4. Climate	5. Renew	6. Climate	7. Renew	8. Climate
Age	0.978^***	0.977^***	0.978^***	0.985^***	0.981^***	0.984^***	0.984^**	0.982^***
Sex (female)	0.984	1.300	1.001	1.292^**	0.992	1.004	1.537*	1.218
Education	1.352^**	1.514^***	1.174^***	1.277^***	1.187^**	1.230^**	1.073	0.931
Party	0.480^***	0.460^***	0.437^***	0.437^***	0.364^***	0.387^***	0.498^***	0.436^***
Ed × party	0.873	0.676^***	0.865^***	0.785^***	0.940	0.723^***	0.901	0.781^**
Election	1.083	0.896
Year			1.160^***	1.116^***	1.125^**	1.100^*
Windev			0.959	1.094	0.743*	0.776
Est sample	1209	1209	6143	4162	2357	2357	1451	1451
F statistic	17.35^***	23.17^***	111.32^***	95.36^***	32.09^***	33.15^***	19.86^***	31.78^***
Count R²	0.77	0.75	0.79	0.73	0.70	0.73	0.78	0.71
Adj count R²	0.18	0.32	0.20	0.34	0.38	0.58	0.02	0.18

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